With it being good, it might make some weird cosmic flux, where it doesn't sell at all?

I don't think that's so much the case any more; in the PS2 era perhaps (such as those insipid Sonic Riders games), but this gen I don't think many of them have sold well at all aside from the Sonic/Mario Olympics crossovers on Nintendo platforms.

I do kind of feel this is being sent out to die, given the time of year Sega chose to release it, even with a budget price. Hopefully it'll do well enough to warrant more iterations. As someone else mentioned, I reckon it would have done a lot better being released August or early September though.

Hello There. I'm from the US, but I thought you guys might be interested in this.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed recently got released, and people have been complaining about the roster and how they think it's lackluster. One of the developers has put out a challenge; if fans can provide 3 characters with 1000 signatures each, they will be seriously considered for DLC. If you had a special SEGA character close to heart you really wanted, here's the chance.

It's being held at SEGA's forums, and you will need an account there if you want to join in. Here's a link:

You can never win with the roster in games like this, there are just too many well loved Sega characters to include them all. But that does mean it's the kind of game DLC makes perfect sense and I hope its successful enough to justify a decent amount.

It's impossible to please everyone with the roster in a game like this, but some of the choices are still a bit questionable. Including things like a Shogun from Total War and a Football Manager guy is a bit bizarre, while missing out Toejam & Earl, Ryo, anyone from Phantasy Star, Ristar, Chu Chu Rocket, etc.

I would have liked to see a few more classic characters and less of the "this is totally bizarre!" and guest characters.

Still, at least they didn't load the game full of Sonic characters and I imagine the reason the price point is so low, is because they plan on releasing a large amount of DLC.